Proprietary Toshiba SATA interface?!

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Hey all,

Friend of mine has a DV6933CL laptop with a bad drive according to the BIOS diagnostic. I told her no problemo, order this WD3200BEKT and I'll swap it out for you.

Come to find out, there's shenanigans being played here. The OEM drive has a different SATA connection interface and I'm hoping it's not some proprietary bs. It's a Toshiba MK3252GSX:

http://imgur.com/O9qYQ.jpg
http://imgur.com/twLca.jpg

Sorry for the poor quality, but essentially what you're looking at in both pictures is the back end of the drive with these flat, thin pins and the receiving piece (which resembles a heat sink) sitting atop the laptop's circuitry in the HDD bay.

I'm wondering if anyone has encountered this before. I didn't inspect super closely; is it perhaps a detachable interface thing to a standard SATA connection? Or Toshiba-only proprietary space-saving interface?

I'd hate to have to replace it with the same drive as it's apparently a POS. Any help/insight greatly appreciated.
 
It's probably an interposer board that sits attached to the existing SATA connection. Does it stick out past the drive itself? If so, then that's what it probably is.
 
crappy pics but I think Blue Fox is right, it's just an interposer board, it' should be detachable.
 
Almost all laptops have an proprietary adaptor which mounts to the drive.

It just needs removed from the old drive to the new one.
 
Like BlueFox said its an interposer board. I had one exactly like that on one of my old laptops.
 
All,

It didn't look to be removable but then again, I didn't inspect super closely. Thanks, I'll take a gander at it again next time I have access to it.
 
IBM has started doing the same thing, recently had an IBM thinkpad with a SSD and a proprietary connector. To me this wasn't a suprise since its IBM lol
 
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